Two goals for the Minnesota Aurora: A USL championship and getting into a...
A green rubber dinosaur propped open the door last week to Minnesota Aurora FC’s corporate office, in an industrial park in Eagan, not far from TCO Stadium. Aurora moved here from its original St. Paul...
View ArticleJaylen Clark making the most of his time on the court for the Minnesota...
Jaylen Clark arrives at the point of attack with the force of a miniature Mack truck, yet steadily inexhaustible, as if fueled by nuclear power activated into his bloodstream on a slow drip. His hunger...
View ArticleSimilar to his catchphrase, Timberwolves announcer Michael Grady is cashing...
“Caaaashh!”When Michael Grady pours his 90-proof bourbon-and-honey voice over the rocks of that word, the splash of it provides verbal alliance with the visual of a Minnesota Timberwolf burying a...
View ArticleWolves rookies show veteran poise in improbable comeback win versus OKC
The torch wasn’t passed Monday night at Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, but it was borrowed honorably, and hoisted high during a stunning, late-game rampage through the best basketball team in the...
View ArticleA film of their own: New documentary partially shot in Minnesota highlights...
It’s an easy mistake to make, because the notion has been drilled into us for decades: Boys play baseball, girls play softball. One sport for each gender. Males often gravitated to slow-pitch softball...
View ArticleWolves mailbag: Answering the burning questions of Wolves fans as the team...
Welcome to the first Timberwolves mailbag column of the 2024-25 NBA season. It comes at a particularly dramatic and dynamic stage of the campaign. With just 18 games remaining to play, the Wolves are...
View ArticleSeems apologies are due to the Timberwolves leadership and Julius Randle
Please don’t stop me if you’ve already heard this one, because you really need to hear it again. The Minnesota Timberwolves made a trade during the offseason that dramatically rearranged the...
View ArticleTimberwolves exposed as possible frauds by two inferior opponents
The collective confidence of the Minnesota Timberwolves is a veneer, a paint job without a primer, the cracks showing through under cursory scrutiny. It is hard to believe in a team that, at the...
View ArticleFor Abbey Murphy, winning a national championship for the Gophers is the only...
The postgame press conference last Saturday was wrapping up when Brad Frost, the University of Minnesota women’s hockey coach, offered an unsolicited opinion that was hard to challenge. The Gophers had...
View ArticleLooking at the playoff scenario for the Wolves, the glass is half full
Spring used to be christened in Minnesota by icicles dripping into stubborn slush and debris-flecked mud as we prepared to our much smaller television sets to watch March Madness and fantasize about...
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